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LSE

LSE

London Stock Exchange, which was founded in 1571 and now has a market cap of almost $5 trillion.

London Stock Exchange, which was founded in 1571 and now has a market cap of almost $5 trillion.

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Arithmetic Mean

The sum of a set of numbers added together and then divided by the total amount of numbers in that set.

Stock Market

A place where shares of publicly listed companies are traded.

Quick ratio

Learn what quick ratio stands for in financial terms and how to calculate it.

Bond

Learn what a bond is

Profit and Loss Statement (P&L)

A statement that summarises firm's expenses, costs, and revenues incurred during a time period. AKA income statement.

Venture Capital

A type of financing that investors provide to startups, who sometimes announce getting said financing in TechCrunch, to big fanfare.

Gilt

What is a gilt?

Yield curve

A graphical representation of interest rates over time

Yield

Income from an investment as a percentage of its current price.

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